St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-19
AGAINST POVERTY.
an Interesting Meeting Held &:

En Interesting Meeting Held at
Harmonic Hail Last Evening.
There were a large number of ladies
present at the anti-poverty meeting at
Window nall last evening. The speaker
OF the evening was Rev. Dr.. WaddeIl.
of this city. He said he advocated
the principles Of the society because
he thought they were right and
because it was the only remedy against
monopoly ON one hand and anarchy on
the other. While Henry George Is
tO-lav called an ideallSt and Il fanatic.
his Ideas are right and are the only sal
walton Of the ldbOTing man. l embrace
his views as [ do Christianity. be-
cause they are manly and right.
There has been progress IN
what we call civilization. we
all know. Yet with this progress We
still see poverty and lack OF equality,
and as governments develop more and
more. we see the rich growing richer
ana the poor growing poorer. The
trouble must be settled. either by blood
shed or in the light of Gods love. God
grant ii NAV be the latter. If there IS
such law as the law Of human
progress, let us apply II at once
to all cur institutions. The tate or
this country will depend on the events
of the next twenty-five years. People
have come 10 look upon each other as
selfish i'm all things Social science has
not done one single thing toward cast
ing light on the subject under discus
sion. We do not believe in fataiiSm:
we believe i'm 4 God who rules this
world according to law. II the nation
and the individual would progress. want
and the pressure of want must be re
moved. and this can only be done by CO.
operation. God never damned rich
man for being rich. nor blessed 4 poor
man TOR being poor. and the Bible does
not say so. either. The Bible does teach.
however. that our souls are worth more
than our worldly goods. The trouble
with religion is that it has only given the
Door crust of bread. The teachings of
the Henry George theory and OF the Anti
Poverty are purely Christian and will
succeed. To-day the United Labor
party is the only party IN the country
that has any principle in II. The time
has come when religion and politics
Join hands. The time has come when
the thinking men cannot separate re-
IEion from politics. The law Of hered-
itity IS d failure when applied to social
service and never has and never
viii do anything for the world.
Tt is the mind and not the body that
evolves and makes us men. There are
certain laws that become very complex
is civilization advances. We have now
zone into complex development so fast
mat we hardly realize IL. and it retards
1ur progress. If we push whisky out
IF the world we viii have
an army of morphine ana opium
EATERS. which is worse than having
arUnkardS. We must cure the whole
body. and the whole solution Is in the
Henry George land theory. The
speaker went over what has been said a
hundred times before in regard to the
and system. and said that the land the
Dry only contained Tie most upright
principles OF honesty and fairness.
Clarence MOeller. state organizer.
made a short address. touching upon
lie work that had been done since the
society had been organized and giving
an outline OF what would follow. Harry
Bacon. at the conclusion of Mr.. Noel
.er7s address. sang ''Oh, Fair Dove.
Mrs. Il. Z. Wilson recited Ion Earth as
It Is in Heaven in Il pleasing manner,
and read the Question Of Oats at the
close of the meeting.